Robert Alvarez

Robert Alvarez is an American animator, television director, and writer. He began his career as an assistant animator for Yellow Submarine (1968) starring The Beatles. Since then, he has worked on many animated television series, including Super Friends (1973), The Smurfs (1981), G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero - The M.A.S.S. Device (1983), A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988), Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron (1993), Dexter's Laboratory (1996), I Am Weasel (1997), The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2003), The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988) and Regular Show (2010). He also created and wrote two animated pilots, Pizza Boy in No Tip (1996) and Tumbleweed Tex in School Daze (1996), for Hanna-Barbera's cartoon shorts showcase What a Cartoon! (1995) in 1996. Alvarez attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California from 1962 to 1966. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in animation from the Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts), which he completed in 1971. Alvarez has received 6 Primetime Emmy Awards, 20 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and 1 Daytime Emmy Award nomination. His first nomination came in 1994 in the category Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) for directing The Town Santa Forgot (1993). In 2000 and 2001, he received two more nominations for his work on Beat Your Greens/Down 'n Dirty (1999) and Moral Decay/Meet the Beat-Alls (2000), also receiving one in 2004 for The Powerpuff Girls: 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas (2003). Alvarez won two Primetime Emmys for his work on the Genndy Tartakovsky series Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) and a third for Episode XXXVII - The Birth of Evil: Part I (2003)-Episode XXXVIII - The Birth of Evil: Part II (2003). In 2006, he garnered one nomination for Go Goo Go (2005) and another for the My Life as a Teenage Robot: Escape from Cluster Prime (2005). One more Foster's nomination followed in 2007 for the episode "Good Wilt Hunting (2006)" before he would win a Primetime Emmy for the show, which was for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Destination Imagination (2008) in 2009. In 2010, he was nominated for the animated short Pilot (2010) in the category Outstanding Short-format Animated Program. Alvarez received a Primetime Emmy award for Eggscellent (2012) in 2012, which he also was nominated for in 2011. His Daytime Emmy nomination was in 2007 for The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2003) in the category Outstanding Broadband Program - Children's.